Friday, September 15, 2006
Boo Air Canada
Well, I'm back in Waterloo.
Furfle, however, is not. The ever graceful baggage handlers at Air Canada broke his CPU mount in transit from Dawson Creek to Toronto. $800 later and I have a computer which is the third incarnation of Furfle. However, it contains no original Furfle parts.
On the plus side, this gave me an excuse to get a computer that was powerful enough to run Windows Vista. This is good for two reasons: one, I need it to prepare myself for my next work term; and two, it has snazzy speech recognition features.
In fact, as you might expect, this entry was dictated.
The ultimate test, however, will be using it to dictate my work term report. That looks to be the next 48 hours of my life -I'll let you know how it went on Monday.
Furfle, however, is not. The ever graceful baggage handlers at Air Canada broke his CPU mount in transit from Dawson Creek to Toronto. $800 later and I have a computer which is the third incarnation of Furfle. However, it contains no original Furfle parts.
On the plus side, this gave me an excuse to get a computer that was powerful enough to run Windows Vista. This is good for two reasons: one, I need it to prepare myself for my next work term; and two, it has snazzy speech recognition features.
In fact, as you might expect, this entry was dictated.
The ultimate test, however, will be using it to dictate my work term report. That looks to be the next 48 hours of my life -I'll let you know how it went on Monday.
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Yikes - did Air Canada pick up the tab or was it all on you? Air Canada deserves resounding boos all round I think - remember how they charged me $120 to ship my bike from GP to E? From E to Hali I flew with good ole west jet who charged me only $40 because my two bags were "small" and was advised to purchase a larger suitcase so that in future Air Canada would not charge me such a ridiculous rate.
Love J.
Love J.
# posted by 
: 4:46 PM
: 4:46 PM
No, I imagine I'm in the same boat as dad was when some airline screwed up his windsurfing equipment.
"At $5.00 per kilogram, you are entitled to about $13.23. We're sorry for your loss. We realize you do have a choice of airlines when flying, and we sincerely thank you for choosing Air Canada."
Oh well.
"At $5.00 per kilogram, you are entitled to about $13.23. We're sorry for your loss. We realize you do have a choice of airlines when flying, and we sincerely thank you for choosing Air Canada."
Oh well.
Vista speech recognition program you say ay? I heard only bad things about the speech rec on Vista, but then maybe I'm sorta biased having worked at nuance. If you'd like to see a good dictation problem, I've got a copy of dragon naturally speaking and it works like a charm.
And I'm sorry to hear about your lappy.
And I'm sorry to hear about your lappy.
ya and they always give me nasty pretzels and im like give me COOOOOOKIES!!!!! hahahhahh maybe part of furfles reincarnation will be in the form of a PHONE?????
# posted by : 3:08 AM
: 3:08 AM
oppps forgot my name:
Lindsay ----ps if you don't get a phone ---- more agressive blogging habits please
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Lindsay ----ps if you don't get a phone ---- more agressive blogging habits please
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